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SUBMITTER: Andres CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4049491 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andres Christine M CM Zhu Jian J Shyu Terry T Flynn Connor C Kotov Nicholas A NA
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20140401 19
Nature provides a vast array of solid materials that repeatedly and reversibly transform in shape in response to environmental variations. This property is essential, for example, for new energy-saving technologies, efficient collection of solar radiation, and thermal management. Here we report a similar shape-morphing mechanism using differential swelling of hydrophilic polyelectrolyte multilayer inkjets deposited on an LBL carbon nanotube (CNT) composite. The out-of-plane deflection can be pre ...[more]